The politics of Statesboro, GA are largely influenced by the overall makeup of Bulloch County, where the city is located. The county is heavily conservative and traditionally votes Republican in elections. In 2018, Republican Brian Kemp won almost 70% of the vote in Bulloch County, while Democrat Stacey Abrams earned just over 28%. As a result, Statesboro’s political culture is strongly influenced by these results. Despite this strong Republican majority in local politics, there have been efforts to provide progressive candidates with more representation in the area. Recently, several progressive Democrats have run for local offices such as school board and town council seats. These candidates have often faced an uphill battle against their more conservative opponents but have helped to bring some much needed diversity to the local political landscape.
The political climate in Statesboro, GA is leaning conservative.
Bulloch County, GA is moderately conservative. In Bulloch County, GA 37.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 61.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bulloch county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 61.1% to 37.4%.
Bulloch county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Statesboro, GA is leaning conservative.
Bulloch County, Georgia is moderately conservative.
Statesboro Metro Area is moderately conservative.
Georgia is leaning liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Statesboro, Georgia: R R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Statesboro, GA
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 962 contributions totaling $120,366 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $125 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 474 contributions totaling $111,816 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $236 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)